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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A port of entry where whaling-vessels are owned and registered.
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His success was not so great that the owners, the Messrs. French, cared to repeat the experiment; so that within twenty years Sag Harbor has fallen from its position as the third or fourth whaling-port in the country to that in which we find it to-day.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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